Ancient Warrior donning gold coin shaped armor, uses spears and rides horses
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Anubis
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Krazy4Real
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Dude, Cataphracts are so overpowerd in CBA AOE:aoc at igz 
They just eat melee for breakfast and still pretty good vs archer uniques.
They just eat melee for breakfast and still pretty good vs archer uniques.Chainmail and ringmail use the ring shapes, but he said coins, which made me think of scale armor.
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haha, well, let me tell you, I have been studying all sorts of history, and such, and I enjoy studying the evolution of military history, so there's a bit more to it.
What Kataphractoi really were in Byzantium were lamellar and chain armored men with strong horses. The horses tended to have frontal armor, but these Kataphractoi were easy to maintain (relatively; standing armies are a HEAVY BLOW to any nation, and Byzantium was no exception).
The Cataphract (which literally means 'covered in') that appeared in early Roma Nova's history (Roma Nova is the real name of Constantinople, now Istanbul) would be really a Cilibinarii, and more heavily armored. The Greeks first started using "Cataphracts" (or Cilibinarii) in the Hellenestic period, inspired by the Persians. When Rome and Parthia smashed the Greek Power in Persia, Western use of the cataphract died out, until the early 3rd century A.D., when cilibinarii were revived in the need for a more adequate response to Parthia (the then Middle Eastern power) and her Horse Archers and heavily armored nobility(also known as 'cataphracts.'
The Samartians who were a semitic-Turkic peoples north east of the empire, around the black sea, and related to the Scythians, were the first employed as direct mercenaries of Rome.
Then, the Romans integrated this troop type into their army, with Samartians still playing a role. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire, heavy cavalry present in that area were the Ostrogothic, Lombard, Frankish, and Burgundian nobility, who transformed themselves into a Feudal societies.
In the East, the wealth of the Eastern Empire was enough to field heavy cavalry, but not enough to field literal cataphracts. It's understandable, because you need a horse capable of bearing not only its own armor of maybe 60 pounds, depending on the material, but also a rider in perhaps 70 pounds of armor.
For this reason, Cataphracts tended not to charge, because their energy would soon be expended. Instead, they would assume a broad wedge formation and assume a sort of brisk trot and slowly trample their foes down by an almost inexorable, bludgeoning force.
So feel free to ask me questions, it'd be a pleasure.
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